Or when people say that democracy is better than the alternatives do they have something other than aggregate pleasure minus aggregate suffering in mind? — WISDOMfromPO-MO
Or when people say that democracy is better than the alternatives do they have something other than aggregate pleasure minus aggregate suffering in mind? Do they have something other than concrete experiences in mind? Democracy is grander, or something like that? Democracy is their cultural heritage/legacy and saying it is superior feeds their ethnocentric hubris, maybe? — WISDOMfromPO-MO
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